J. Matt Barber column
Matt Barber is founder and editor-in-chief of BarbWire.com and an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. In addition to his law degree, Matt holds a Master of Arts in Public Policy from Regent University.
Matt is both an author and a popular columnist. He's known for a unique writing style (an entertaining blend of thoughtful analysis and Swiftian satire, delivered with a rapier wit). Many newspapers and online publications run Matt's columns, to include WND, TheBlaze, the Washington Times, TownHall and many more. Author of the book, "The Right Hook: From the Ring to the Culture War," Matt is currently penning his first novel.
In addition to frequent public speaking engagements, Matt has appeared as a cultural analyst on the Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNN and is a regular guest on dozens of talk radio programs and networks including Michael Savage, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, Dennis Prager, the Michael Medved Show, the Janet Mefferd Show and others. Matt also co-hosts "Faith and Freedom" a daily legal and cultural issues talk radio program heard on about 90 stations across the country.
Matt served twelve years in the Army National Guard, was a law enforcement officer for three years and a corporate fraud investigator for five years.
Setting him apart from others in his various fields, Matt was an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer retiring in 2004. Prior to turning pro, he was a several time state and regional Golden Gloves champion, competing in the 1992 Western Olympic Trials and winning a Gold Medal in the 1993 Police and Fire World Games.
Matt is both an author and a popular columnist. He's known for a unique writing style (an entertaining blend of thoughtful analysis and Swiftian satire, delivered with a rapier wit). Many newspapers and online publications run Matt's columns, to include WND, TheBlaze, the Washington Times, TownHall and many more. Author of the book, "The Right Hook: From the Ring to the Culture War," Matt is currently penning his first novel.
In addition to frequent public speaking engagements, Matt has appeared as a cultural analyst on the Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNN and is a regular guest on dozens of talk radio programs and networks including Michael Savage, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, Dennis Prager, the Michael Medved Show, the Janet Mefferd Show and others. Matt also co-hosts "Faith and Freedom" a daily legal and cultural issues talk radio program heard on about 90 stations across the country.
Matt served twelve years in the Army National Guard, was a law enforcement officer for three years and a corporate fraud investigator for five years.
Setting him apart from others in his various fields, Matt was an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer retiring in 2004. Prior to turning pro, he was a several time state and regional Golden Gloves champion, competing in the 1992 Western Olympic Trials and winning a Gold Medal in the 1993 Police and Fire World Games.
Subscribe to Matt's columnJ. Matt Barber
November 7, 2016
We are in uncharted territory. Unfettered corruption has metastasized to the highest levels of government. FBI Director James Comey, a man once widely respected . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 26, 2016
While Democrats perpetually circle the wagons, Republicans engage a perpetual circular firing squad. The same holds true for many evangelicals. Democrats and . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 22, 2016
Under the "progressive" leadership of Barack Obama and his like-minded "social justice" warriors throughout all levels of government, we have entered an era of . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 28, 2016
It's often said, "There is only one race – the human race." While the phrase has become almost cliché in repetition, it happens to be 100 percent . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 19, 2016
I can't wait for "Weekend at Chelsea's" to hit the big screen. CNN and the rest of Hillary Clinton's slobbering media sycophants have already written the script . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 12, 2016
We live in a time when "tolerance," "diversity" and "inclusivity" are considered by many cultural virtues that supersede all others. This popular relativist . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 5, 2016
How's about some commie ketchup on that burger? It's extra red. A little Marxist mustard for your dog? What about a pinch of socialist sauerkraut on that . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 29, 2016
If your daughter, sister, mother or friend "identified" as a fat person trapped in a perilously emaciated body – if she truly believed she was obese, but, . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 22, 2016
Moral clarity alert. The kid gloves are off. Time for some serious soul searching.
You proponents of the torturous live-dismemberment of children in the womb . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 16, 2016
You may have seen the meme come across your social media feeds. It's a quote by the fiery preacher and great 19th-century theologian Charles Spurgeon: "Of two . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 10, 2016
There's a reason why the Washington Post is not-so-affectionately tagged the "Washington Compost" by its fast-growing pool of distrustful detractors. That . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 1, 2016
Attention on the poop deck. It seems our "first gay president" intends to "milk," with pride, his fetish for all things "LGBT" in the closing months (mercifully . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 26, 2016
Even as the GOP establishment drifts ever leftward, mutating into a "progressive" monstrosity nearly indistinguishable from its DNC Capital Club drinking . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 19, 2016
"Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance."
– Barack Hussein Obama
Isn't it about time we crusade for self-defense?
I'll say it again. Political . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 11, 2016
Dear Heavenly Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth, today we grieve for a nation divided.
The wages of sin is death, and we are a culture of sin and death.
. . .
J. Matt Barber
July 4, 2016
In the wake of England's historic Brexit vote, and during America's own Fourth of July celebrations, we're reminded that man's longing for individual freedom is . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 29, 2016
I was among a group of hundreds of Christian leaders asked to attend a private event in New York City Tuesday billed as a "Conversation with Donald Trump." I'm . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 20, 2016
Sadly, it's no joke.
In the wake of the Orlando ISIS bloodbath, the rational world now gazes through the looking glass, jaws agape, into the up-is-down, male . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 13, 2016
"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.
This was the slogan of George Orwell's fictional English Socialist Party (INGSOC) of Oceania, from . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 7, 2016
Those who deny the existence of their Creator are delusional.
This is not an insult. It's not a personal attack. It's not a . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 30, 2016
"Remember what I told you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 23, 2016
"[T]he only way of getting rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little."
– Adolf Hitler
Yes, there have been evil men who have done . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 17, 2016
President Obama's done lost his mind. He's just flushed the civil rights of men and women, boys and girls, to pee in peace and shower without having naked, . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 8, 2016
Dear Mr. Trump:
One of the things I appreciate about you is that you're exceptionally direct. So am I.
And so I'll be direct.
I am a Ted Cruz supporter . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 3, 2016
"The Gospel of Christ doesn't care about 'tolerance.' It cares about truth."
These words caused me to look up from my Bible Gateway app where I was reading . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 26, 2016
They say there are no atheists in the foxhole.
Even fewer when death is certain.
None once the final curtain falls.
God's Word declares, "The fool hath . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 18, 2016
This is like nothing I've ever written before. It's an open plea for prayer, an open window into my heart and that of my wife, Sarah, and an open last-ditch . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 11, 2016
Were you aware that April is "STD Awareness Month"?
Neither was I.
STD, of course, stands for "Sexually Transmitted Disease" – also known as . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 4, 2016
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
– Aleister Crowley, Satanic priest and paragon to Alfred Kinsey, father of modern sex education
. . .
J. Matt Barber
March 28, 2016
Why would millions of Americans rally behind a Republican presidential candidate who, according to every poll, and at a rate precisely commensurate with the . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 22, 2016
George Orwell famously wrote, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
For those tethered to biological reality, the self . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 14, 2016
Father God, Son and Holy Spirit, Maker of heaven and earth, You are the First Cause of these United States of America.
You are sovereign.
You knew before . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 7, 2016
What would happen if Donald Trump sat down with the Creator of the universe in a SoHo bistro?
The following statements attributed to Mr. Trump are not . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 29, 2016
Much will be written about the utter thrashing GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump took at the hands of the far-more prepared, knowledgeable, qualified . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 22, 2016
What a mess our world is in. What a mess America is in. What a mess the church is in.
Depressed yet?
Isaiah 5:20 encapsulates, I believe, the cultural . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 16, 2016
This cannot be good for free speech and the open exchange of ideas. Not for Christians and conservatives anyway.
Twitter announced on Wednesday that it has . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 8, 2016
On the 26th of this month, legendary singer/song-writer and iced-cool customer Johnny Cash would have celebrated his 85th birthday. Even as I write, his live . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 1, 2016
The American church has a problem. It's one part fear, one part confusion and one part apathy. Pastors, priests and rabbis have long swallowed the false notion . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 26, 2016
Abortion and promiscuity. Planned Parenthood and "slut shaming." I was reminded on this, the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's disgraceful Roe v. . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 18, 2016
Stinkin' Canadian. Dang feriner, conspirin' to come over here and replace our delicious, crispy, all-American bacon with that floppy, communist, Canadian crap. . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 12, 2016
My goal here is not to offend. Neither is it to persuade. In matters of the spirit, there is but One capable of opening the eyes of the heart. Rather, my . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 4, 2016
"When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them."
– The . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 30, 2015
While the legal case will continue to work its way through the courts, the bottom line is this: Kim Davis has won. The homofascists have lost.
Last Tuesday, . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 21, 2015
I've never formally endorsed a candidate in any presidential primary. This time the stakes are too high not to. Look around. The world is on fire and the party . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 15, 2015
"Hillary is a liar."
This was Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.'s response to Sean Hannity when asked about Hillary Clinton's disgusting, and . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 8, 2015
"I'm sick of these white male NRA Republicans and their mass shootings beca ... um, Sayed Farook? Hey, let's not vilify an entire group."
– Jon Gabriel . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 30, 2015
One of my favorite C.S. Lewis quotes points out, as only Lewis could, that Jesus was either the Messiah (and the Son of God) as prophesied in the ancient Jewish . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 24, 2015
"It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so."
– Ronald Reagan
What was President Obama's . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 16, 2015
If you're outraged and don't know why, but, since your BFFs are, you are too, then this column is for you.
Trigger warning: If you're one of those precious . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 9, 2015
And somewhere men are laughing and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy in Libville – the lefties have struck out.
But it's not just liberal . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 2, 2015
How's this for a sign of the times? Glamour Magazine has now confirmed that it plans to award a man its highly coveted (or not so much) "Woman of the Year" . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 26, 2015
No, you haven't lost your mind.
Yes, America has.
If someone just 20 years ago had said, for starters, that we'd someday elect an anti-American president . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 20, 2015
Mankind's enduring "culture war" is nothing new. It first began in a garden long ago and today has reached a fever pitch worldwide. The battle lines are drawn, . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 12, 2015
To the limited extent they actually do, have you ever wondered how so-called "progressives" think? The progressive mind – let's call it, "Progressy" . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 6, 2015
Big news this week as "progressives" worldwide learned, to their utter shock and mournful consternation, that the pope is Catholic. Rumors are they will next . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 28, 2015
God help us. Here's what America's newly homosexualized, "values neutral" military looks like.
Last week, in a strange fit of actual news reporting, the New . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 21, 2015
Full disclosure: As goes election 2016, I'm decidedly not in the Donald Trump camp. To compare Trump to Ronald Reagan, as some have done, is like comparing a . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 14, 2015
Mahatma Gandhi once said, "There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts."
He was partly . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 8, 2015
For the first time in American history a woman has been imprisoned by the government for merely exercising her Christian faith. War has been declared on Christ . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 31, 2015
"Judicial activism occurs when judges write subjective policy preferences into the law rather than apply the law impartially according to its original meaning." . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 24, 2015
"Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!"
– Matthew 18:7
. . .
J. Matt Barber
August 17, 2015
It's never fun to be proven right when warning of some impending wrong. Many in the pro-family movement have long stressed that the cultural Marxist left's . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 10, 2015
"Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body."
– 1 . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 3, 2015
Nazi monster Dr. Josef Mengele is known to have ordered the murder of over 400,000 Jews at Auschwitz from 1943 to 1945. Thousands more he kept alive and . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 27, 2015
I suppose it's a bit more of an anecdote than a commentary. Twenty-two years ago and it seems like last week.
Isn't that something old farts say?
The . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 20, 2015
It's by design. As I, and others, have repeatedly warned, the establishment of so-called "gay marriage" as a newfangled federal "right," and the free exercise . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 6, 2015
"Remember what I told you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 29, 2015
Well, that was predictable. On Friday, with its majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, five judicial imperialists perched high atop the U.S. Supreme Court . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 23, 2015
Hold on.
Courage, Matt, courage.
Breathe.
OK, I'm . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 15, 2015
I love this quote by illustrious NASA scientist Dr. Robert Jastrow (1925-2008): "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 8, 2015
If I see that creepy Vanity Fair cover of Bruce Jenner come across my Facebook feed just one more time, I'm going to gouge out my eyeballs and bleach the . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 1, 2015
I appreciate it when leftists get off script, dispatch with the propagandist talking points and say what's really on their minds.
"Progressives" hate natural . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 25, 2015
I said it was coming. Many of us did. Two years ago this week the Boy Scouts of America voted to welcome into its ranks "open and avowed" homosexuality (boy-on . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 19, 2015
While actions speak louder than words, words often predict future actions. Secular progressives' words and actions rarely align. This is because the pseudo . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 12, 2015
Graduation season is upon us. Be it middle school, high school, college or graduate school, now is a time of joy and celebration for millions. From coast to . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 4, 2015
Abba, Father.
Come now, Holy Spirit, and speak through Your humble servant. Let this prayer be Your prayer – truth in love, salt and light.
And war. . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 26, 2015
Amid the cross-country race to election 2016, the secular left's utter disdain for both our Creator Christ and His faithful followers is fast approaching . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 20, 2015
The very notion of "gay marriage" is an artificial construct. It's the aberrant byproduct of the sexual revolution, which, itself, was largely instigated by bug . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 12, 2015
Liberals overplay their hand. It's part of the deficiency. Whether real or perceived, if the pagan left can rationalize a sense of "progress" on some freedom . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 6, 2015
Recently, while announcing his 2016 presidential bid in front of 13,000 onlookers at central Virginia's Liberty University, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz garnered . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 30, 2015
"My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mean is this: One of you says, 'I follow Paul'; . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 23, 2015
Espresso makes you hyper. When you're hyper you sometimes make rash decisions. When you make rash decisions you usually regret it. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 16, 2015
We recently had a guest contributor at BarbWire.com link to an article that, to our disgust, calls for the "lawful execution" of homosexuals. It went unnoticed . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 9, 2015
Dear homosexual,
We are your fellow sinners and no better than you. We know this. We are saved from eternal torment, self-wrought, by the grace of Christ . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 2, 2015
In 2007, and with that same nauseating arrogance that has come to define him, then presidential candidate Barack Obama duplicitously quipped, "I am absolutely . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 23, 2015
Dear candidate for president of the United States:
Congratulations on your decision to pursue a career as leader of the free world. The following exam, while . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 16, 2015
This gem from John Nolte came across my Twitter feed the other day: "Met Brian Williams once in DC. Starting to wonder about that story he told me about saving . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 9, 2015
Dear Mr. Jenner,
You probably don't know who I am and certainly have no obligation to read on. Even so, I pray you will. As the great Olympic champion God . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 1, 2015
Well, that didn't take long. This summer after Barack Obama inexplicably (and illegally) freed five of the Taliban's most deadly terrorists in exchange for army . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 26, 2015
Logic is the cognitive pathway to truth. While to err is human, when we objectively apply logic to the question at hand, we at least endeavor, if done so in . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 18, 2015
Like a plastic Piggly Wiggly bag fluttering about in the alley, those untethered from God's natural law are violently tossed to and fro by the gusting winds of . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 12, 2015
"Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you." So observed conservative journalist Robert . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 5, 2015
One of the secular left's latest windmills at which to tilt is America's fanciful "rape culture." There is a universal ethos of violence against women, as they . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 29, 2014
"For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him."
– Philippians 1:29
Defense of God's . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 22, 2014
I am no longer a Republican. John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and their Democrat-lite, RINO Republican establishment have seen to that. They have betrayed their . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 15, 2014
"When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them."
– The . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 7, 2014
"The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever."
– 1 John 2:17
It's getting ugly out . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 30, 2014
The inmates are running the asylum in Indy.
Until recently I had not heard of the National Federation of State High School Associations, or NFHS. This . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 24, 2014
"It seems to me that in the gay community the people who should be running interference for NAM/BLA are the parents and friends of gays. Because if the . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 17, 2014
"Remember what I told you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 10, 2014
There is no such thing as the Easter Bunny.
If there arose a global movement that loudly and proudly demanded "bunny equality," and a dozen or more activist . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 3, 2014
Should we make an example of her?
Absolutely.
I was born in Waco, Texas, and lived in Houston, so I've got a dog in this hunt. Really, we all . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 26, 2014
It's hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys anymore. You've seen it in the news. It has shocked and horrified the civilized world. Christians and Yazidis, . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 20, 2014
Tranny tyranny. Strike that. "LGBT" tyranny. Lesbian, gay, bisexual tyranny. That, generally speaking, is what's on display in Houston right now. But trust me: . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 12, 2014
It's called Pandora's Box.
And the Supreme Court just opened it.
Did you actually think the debate over "gay marriage" was about marriage? Have you really . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 6, 2014
There once was a land, a magical land, with a chicken in every pot. And in this land, which was called Progressitopia, there were two peoples. There were those . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 30, 2014
"Projections have shown that if current trends continue, half of all gay and bisexual men will be HIV-positive by age 50."
– The Wall Street Journal, . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 22, 2014
Attorney, author and columnist David Limbaugh is a man after my own heart. He's also a man after my own mind. That is to say, as both a fellow member of the bar . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 15, 2014
Judge Richard Posner, a federal judge with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, recently become a hero to the pro-"gay marriage" left when, by way of a "legal . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 8, 2014
Note: It is for columns like this that I created a "Hate Mail" folder in Outlook.
None can deny the fast-rising popularity and approval of the "lesbian, gay, . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 1, 2014
It was the summer of 2011. We were visiting friends in North Carolina one weekend for a lovely wedding on the beach. Our strong-willed, opinionated and hyper . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 25, 2014
"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 18, 2014
This is a game-changer. Talk about "an old wives' tale." You've heard it said that 1) 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce, 2) most marriages that do . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 10, 2014
It seems I have some liberal knickers in a knot north of the border.
The left is anything if not predictable. It tickles me to no end when, by way of their . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 3, 2014
"You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come."
– Matthew 24 . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 27, 2014
Israel is not tame.
But she is good.
If a poacher shoots arrows at a pride of sleeping lions, are the lions to blame for rousing and defending themselves? . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 20, 2014
From behind a smoking sniper rifle high atop his ivory tower peers the secular-"progressive." He surveys his many victims, strewn across the American landscape . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 6, 2014
While reams have already been penned examining the implications of last week's Hobby Lobby decision, most of what's been written, particularly in the liberal . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 30, 2014
It's hard to determine where the tragedy begins and the travesty ends. It's a story that has gripped and enraged a nation. It's a sordid tale of governmental . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 23, 2014
Look at your life. Life is hard. Look at the news. In our fallen, sinful world, evil swirls about like a violent dust devil, clouding the air of absolute truth . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 16, 2014
Churches in Denmark are now compelled, by law, to host same-sex "weddings."
America is next.
Tyranny's appetite is insatiable. The secular-left's hunger . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 8, 2014
You were already thinking it.
Treason.
For Richard Nixon, it was a cover-up surrounding illegal wiretapping. For Bill Clinton, it was lying under oath . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 2, 2014
The Bible is the "word of truth." It's mankind's user manual. It's the blueprint, even in suffering, for a joyful and fulfilled existence in this life, and an . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 26, 2014
A priceless vein of God's infinite wisdom and creative beauty can be found marbled throughout the marvelous and myriad differences He established between the . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 19, 2014
One of my readers, we'll call him Moses, is the publisher of a mainstream newspaper in California. He wrote me the other day with an insightful observation. . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 12, 2014
While in the vast majority of their constitutionally related writings the Founding Fathers were explicit that the judicial branch of government is effectively . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 6, 2014
The AP reports:
"The first openly gay Episcopal bishop, who became a symbol for gay rights far beyond the church while deeply dividing the world's Anglicans, . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 5, 2014
A $2.5 million fine, a lifetime ban from the NBA and potential confiscation of his personal property through the forced sale of the L.A. Clippers? Are you . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 28, 2014
Shocking allegations by former child actor Michael Egan against openly "gay" "X-Men" director and producer Bryan Singer have stunned Hollywood into relative . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 20, 2014
They were always deadly serious about criminalizing Christianity and killing free speech, but now the American left has stopped pretending otherwise. In a . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 16, 2014
WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group is planning to release, through its liberal sister imprint Convergent Books, a manuscript paradoxically titled God and the . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 14, 2014
The public career beheading of former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich at the hands of pagan sexual jihadists, coupled with an escalating epidemic of Christian business . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 8, 2014
They say that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Not true. It does if you stand high atop a cliff's edge waving a lightning rod above your head . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 5, 2014
Many Christians have been warning for years that the radical homosexual activist lobby is made up of Christian-hating fascists who are in rebellion against both . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 31, 2014
A preferred ploy of left-wing change agents is to ridicule critics when they point out the undeniable parallels between the goals of today's "progressive" . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 23, 2014
Leave it to the Republican Party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
While nearly every poll definitively affirms that Democrats are in deep doo-doo . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 17, 2014
Hold on, I've got a good one. What do you get when Joycelyn Elders, Barack Obama and a cross-dressing billionaire walk into a bar to discuss the U.S. Marines . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 9, 2014
The question is not, "Is America falling?" but, rather, "Why is America falling?"
I'm currently writing from CPAC 2014, the nation's largest gathering of . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 2, 2014
Albert Einstein once said, "Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."
He was right.
In the aftermath of the Arizona religious . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 23, 2014
Hey, gals, want to avoid being raped? Put away that Lady Smith 38. No need for pepper spray. Self-defense classes? Not necessary. The solution is simple. The . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 17, 2014
This past week I, along with a group of fellow Christians, embarked on a new venture. In partnership with Liberty Alliance, LLC – the No. 1 ranked . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 10, 2014
You've heard it said that "We are all God's children." This rings flowery and nice.
It's an insidious lie.
Indeed, God both created and loves – in a . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 2, 2014
Hypocrisy, thy name is liberalism. What a difference a few years makes.
Remember when "progressive" media types chided President George W. Bush till they . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 26, 2014
This past week America honored both the life and noble work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a Bible-believing Christian minister who did more to advance the . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 20, 2014
I'm a Bible-believing Christian first, a conservative second and, sometimes, with rapidly dwindling frequency, a Republican third (but only when the Grand Old . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 13, 2014
In 2010 millions of American tea-party constitutionalists, to include the GOP's Christian base, united in a remarkable grass-roots effort to rein in our . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 6, 2014
For those of us so very blessed to have raised our personal white flag in mankind's inherently fruitless struggle against the Creator, there can be no joy in . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 30, 2013
In clear violation of op-ed protocol, this week I'm suspending prose and having a little good, clean, limericky fun at liberals' expense because – well, . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 23, 2013
As widely reported, Phil Robertson, the patriarch in A&E's breakaway hit "Duck Dynasty," recently ran a-fowl of homosexual pressure groups, ruffling . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 16, 2013
Why are Americans so peeved?
Is it Obamacare?
Well, partly – and in a big way. One wonders, in fact, if that sign language interpreter at the . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 8, 2013
It happened Dec. 2, 2013, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. LifeSiteNews.com broke the story with the headline: "Violent mob of topless pro-abort feminists attacks . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 2, 2013
It's that bustling time between Thanksgiving and Christmas (Christ's Mass), our nationally recognized and congressionally "established" birthday celebration for . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 25, 2013
The magnitude of this Obama administration's "progressive" radicalism becomes more evident with each passing day. In recent months, there has been a drastic . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 18, 2013
Another day, another secularist attempt at religious cleansing.
The United States Supreme Court, which, with jaw-dropping irony, opens every session with . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 11, 2013
The religious liberty death spiral continues.
One of the most dangerous and discriminatory pieces of legislation in modern times – the ironically . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 5, 2013
Princeton University was founded in 1746 by devoutly Christian men with a devoutly Christian mission. It has "evolved" into a fortress of secular-"progressivism . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 28, 2013
Benjamin Franklin famously quipped, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Franklin evidently failed to envisage today's . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 21, 2013
"Disaster," "embarrassment," "humiliating" and "train wreck" are just a few of the colorful terms being used to describe it. The Obama administration's . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 13, 2013
So much for the left's "consenting adults" rhetoric on sex. Forever the consummate conservationists, our self-described "progressive" friends at the ACLU, MSNBC . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 6, 2013
File this under, "Oh, for crying out loud."
There was a time when planning a family was a relatively straightforward process. A young wife might ask her new . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 30, 2013
With his inspirational and unprecedented show of leadership on the floor of the U.S. Senate this past week, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made hundreds of enemies in . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 22, 2013
"I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths." – R.C. Sproul
. . .
J. Matt Barber
September 15, 2013
It was Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 6, 2013. The huge hall was overflowing, the convention sold out. Over 1,200 attendees, with many spilling out into the foyer, . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 9, 2013
At least Oregon is applying its anti-discrimination laws evenhandedly. Interesting story out of Gresham: The Oregonian is reporting that Bruce Bottoms – a . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 2, 2013
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
The Apostle Paul likely wrote . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 26, 2013
Few people doubt that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hopes to become president in 2016. Unfortunately for him, he may have just signed away any chance of that.
. . .
J. Matt Barber
August 19, 2013
The homofascist rainbow-shirts are at it again. They've unsheathed, once more, their anti-Christian long knives.
Back in April, I wrote the following in a . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 12, 2013
I love the Old Testament account of Queen Esther, a beautiful young Jewish woman who put her life on the line to serve God and save her people.
Esther had . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 5, 2013
Father God, Son and Holy Spirit, Maker of heaven and earth, You are the First Cause of these United States of America. You are the Author of all that is true, . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 29, 2013
Anti-Christian extremist groups like the ACLU, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and People for the American Way hate God.
They also hate America.
True . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 22, 2013
My fellow Americans:
I am your humble servant. You have entrusted me with the tremendous honor and responsibility to serve you as president. I am not . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 14, 2013
Recently, millions of Americans were shocked and saddened when the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) disgracefully bowed to left-wing political pressure and became . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 8, 2013
In the war between life and death, all eyes are on Texas as the Lone Star State legislature is poised to pass a sweeping late-term abortion ban. Gov. Rick Perry . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 1, 2013
While poorly decided U.S. Supreme Court cases are a dime a dozen, prior to last Wednesday, two stood out among the most wretched and constitutionally groundless . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 23, 2013
"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good." – Martin Luther King Jr.
The U.S. Supreme . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 17, 2013
More often than not, when someone says, "I hate to say I told you so," they love to say they told you so. Prepare to have a bucket of gloat dumped on your head. . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 10, 2013
Every U.S. president seems to have one primary historical hallmark – positive or negative – that characterizes his legacy. For Abraham Lincoln it . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 3, 2013
Sir John Dalberg-Acton famously observed, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." No federal agency enjoys more power than the . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 27, 2013
"What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" (Mark 8:36)
It's a sad day for both Scouting and for freedom. Indeed, it's a . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 20, 2013
Under President Obama, "justice" is anything but blind. Neither is it deaf. In fact, based on recent revelations, it appears to be watching your every move and . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 13, 2013
When NBA basketball player Jason Collins recently announced to the world that he's sexually attracted to other men, Michelle Obama tweeted, "So proud of you, . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 6, 2013
So I guess you've heard. Fading, 34 year-old NBA free agent Jason Collins has been declared a hero for publicly announcing that he digs dudes. Well, it's about . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 27, 2013
What's the big deal?
I mean, why are we surprised that an abortionist and his staff would, behind the walls of an always-lethal abortion clinic, commit one . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 21, 2013
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." – Genesis 1:1
Be they theist or be they atheist, on this most scientists agree: In the . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 14, 2013
Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence. – Psalm 73:6
"Gay pride" necessitates anti-Christian hate. It must. "Gay . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 7, 2013
I just had breakfast with the Rev. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg. Well, not the real Peter Muhlenberg, but a preacher friend of mine named Travis Witt. Travis . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 1, 2013
"It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is," said the smooth-talking, skirt-chasing, totally busted philanderer.
"Well, no, Bill," replied . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 25, 2013
This week the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on two of the most critical cases of our time. On Tuesday, March 26, attorneys will make the pitch . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 19, 2013
The pro-aborts are losing. They know it, and they hate it.
As LifeNews.com reported in January: "CNN released the results of a new poll showing a majority of . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 11, 2013
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people. (Proverbs 14:34)
The name "Abraham Lincoln" enjoys a boundless shelf life. The 16th president of . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 3, 2013
"But Republican governors are folding like cheap lawn chairs," you say. "And political eunuchs in the GOP establishment are bowing to Obama like he bows to . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 24, 2013
Who am I? I'm a husband and a father. More importantly, and by the grace of God, I'm a follower of Jesus Christ.
This is what motivates me to write you.
. . .
J. Matt Barber
February 18, 2013
The term "moronic" is defined as "notably stupid or lacking in good judgment." It is frequently used as an insult.
The Obama administration is moronic.
. . .
J. Matt Barber
February 11, 2013
Long before homosexual activist Floyd Corkins entered the D.C.-based Family Research Council (FRC) with the intent to commit mass murder, I warned from the . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 4, 2013
In coming days the Boy Scouts of America will decide whether to violate – eliminate, really – its own mission statement, oath and law by changing . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 28, 2013
First, on a personal note: Thank you, thank you and thank you, Mary Elizabeth Williams! What a glorious service you've done the pro-life cause. I know, that's . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 21, 2013
Although it certainly wasn't Oscar material, I still love the 1989 film "Erik the Viking," starring, among others, Tim Robbins, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt and . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 14, 2013
A pretty, young, auburn-haired woman – mid-20s – drove down a lonely country road somewhere in Oklahoma. Appearing in her rearview mirror, at the . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 30, 2012
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world ... ~ The Kinks
Through the secular-"progressive" looking-glass, the term "sexual orientation" has, in a few short . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 24, 2012
It's Christmas Eve day. As you stand before the bubbled display case, you gaze, mouth watering, upon the vibrant collection of baked delicacies. You covet the . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 16, 2012
In light of the horrific developments in Newtown, Conn. — developments so sorrowful that no words will do — I felt it only appropriate to pull my . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 9, 2012
I write these words chiefly to women and girls who have had an abortion. Still, it is my humble hope and honest prayer that anyone weighing this life-versus . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 3, 2012
In recent months, "progressive" lawmakers, activist attorneys and militant homosexual pressure groups have launched a fierce campaign to ban therapeutic help . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 25, 2012
At times, complicated issues are most clearly understood in simple terms. Speaking before the Knesset in 2006, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 20, 2012
There has been much talk of late about America's "fiscal cliff." As troubling as our impending (Obama-spurred) economic collapse may be — and it is more . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 12, 2012
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln
America . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 29, 2012
(Warning: The following contains disturbing information of a sexual nature.)
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. ~ Alfred Lord . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 21, 2012
Did you vote for Barack Obama in 2008? A lot of people did — obviously.
What a time. There's still room for improvement, but what a testimony to just . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 15, 2012
Who says Republicans and Democrats can't agree? Every four years, politicos and pundits, both left and right, come together in a harmonious hymn of hyperbole: . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 8, 2012
The emperor wears no clothes. The bloom is off the rose. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Pardon the barrage of stale metaphors, but it's difficult to . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 1, 2012
A French proverb declares: "What is hard to endure is sweet to recall." I seldom agree with the French, but, as a former professional boxer, I know this to be . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 24, 2012
The upcoming elections aren't about Republican vs. Democrat; conservative vs. liberal; Romney vs. Obama. Not entirely, at least. They're much bigger than all . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 10, 2012
But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven. (Matthew 10:33)
Are you a believer? I'm not asking if you're a Democrat, a . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 3, 2012
Woe to any scientist with an interest in objectively researching and reporting on "LGBT"-related issues. If your findings fail the left's socio-political . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 27, 2012
There's evidently a fine line between a "hate crime" and a BLT.
The Reuters headline screamed: "Bacon found at NY Muslim celebration probed as possible hate . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 20, 2012
To borrow from President Obama's Black Nationalist mentor, Jeremiah Wright, the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate-baiting chickens "have come home to roost." . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 12, 2012
With the exception of one column previously penned, I pray this becomes my most widely read to date.
The secular left has mastered use of the Internet to . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 6, 2012
Writer Sinclair Lewis is credited with saying, "When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving a cross."
Close, but not quite. . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 30, 2012
Forget about Bert and Ernie. I always thought Kermit the Frog was a little "light in the flippers," if you know what I mean. Miss Piggy? Probably just cover . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 23, 2012
Clearly, what our nation needs is more "separation of church and state." If those obnoxious, right-wing Bible thumpers would simply quit bellowing about the . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 15, 2012
As his re-election hopes dim, the mainstream "progressive" media continue to run interference for Barack Obama. It's predictable. They no longer even try to . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 8, 2012
I recently finished reading "Bonhoeffer" by Eric Metaxas. The book, a nearly 600-page biography of German pastor and influential theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 1, 2012
It's often said, "Be careful what you wish for — you just might get it."
Democrats got it all right.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 19, 2012
I write this not to professional homosexuals. That is to say, not to members of the well-funded, politically powerful homosexual activist lobby. They will mock . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 11, 2012
It's been a pitiful sight — a sad week for progressives and "Big Union" Democrat-shilling thugs. In the wake of Tuesday night's devastating recall . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 10, 2012
It's no secret that I have been and remain a vocal critic of Mitt Romney. To say that his conservative bona fides are suspect is an understatement. I have . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 5, 2012
When you're on the wrong side of Planned Parenthood, you're on the right side of history.
The left's disingenuous and intellectually lazy "war on women" . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 3, 2012
They used to arrest middle-aged perverts who get their jollies from talking dirty to children. Today, they get a television show, a nationally syndicated column . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 10, 2012
Eric Holder is a busy man. When President Obama's chief law enforcement officer isn't tied up selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, refusing to prosecute self . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 31, 2012
Liberal theologian William Ellery Channing once observed, "The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 9, 2012
Saul Alinsky is alive and well in the political maneuverings of the secular left. The problem is; we all have the play book now.
As most know, Rush Limbaugh . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 12, 2012
Barack Obama may have just lost the election. He has foolishly gone to war in an election year with tens of millions of Catholics, Protestants and Jews — . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 27, 2012
You're being manipulated. A well respected, highly influential news source has cast aside all journalistic integrity to shill for the liberal, GOP establishment . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 25, 2012
What do establishment Republicans and liberal Democrats have in common? They've long labored under a shared misconception: conservative candidates are . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 14, 2012
I grew up in Denver and am admittedly biased. I'm a Denver Broncos fanatic. In the Mile High City, the Broncos are more than just a football team; they're an . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 4, 2012
As the political season heats up it occurs to me that, as important as elections are, unless the hearts of men are changed, the heart of a nation cannot awaken. . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 23, 2011
After the most recent GOP presidential debate, reasonable people can disagree as to who came out on top. It was abundantly clear, however, who was smothered . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 21, 2011
While necessity is the mother of invention, sloth and envy beget mediocrity and upheaval — the twin siblings of secular-socialism.
It is in this vein . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 10, 2011
Liberals are nervous. They should be. As the 2012 election grows closer a soft rumble builds throughout thousands of Evangelical Christian churches across . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 6, 2011
There has been great gnashing of teeth in "progressive" circles of late over "Christian Dominionist Theology."
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has warned that much of . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 3, 2011
In "Batman," the Joker rhetorically asks a young Bruce Wayne: "Tell me, kid — you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?" Well, I have. Not by . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 25, 2011
To the modern Democratic National Committee, the mainstream media and other "progressive" outfits such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 29, 2011
Dads, when you let the National Education Association, Hollywood and the cast from Glee raise your daughters, you shouldn't be surprised if they turn out to be . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 20, 2011
Fuel prices got you down? Need a job? Well, prepare to unlearn everything you've learned about domestic energy production. Don't ever let another green "warmer" . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 19, 2011
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 9, 2011
Obamacare is like turnip greens: bitter and hard to swallow, but Mommy made you choke them down anyway. The difference is that turnip greens are constitutional . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 26, 2011
What is the Tea Party? Who is the Tea Party? Big media types and the larger left have their demagogic spin: Tea Partyers are racist, backwoods, anti-government . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 15, 2011
Proposition 8 is an amendment to California's State Constitution. It was passed by a comfortable margin via ballot initiative in 2008. Prop 8 maintained the age . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 14, 2011
In the age of gratuitous Hollywood sex and violence it's not surprising that people are starved for family-friendly entertainment. This is not just a matter of . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 25, 2011
Irony is defined as "the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning." The term doublespeak means "evasive, ambiguous language . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 23, 2011
The term "useful idiot" is believed to have been coined by Vladimir Lenin. It originally described liberal Communist sympathizers in Western nations who, as the . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 22, 2011
Guns don't kill people, metaphors do. It's true. Words have consequences. I tested it: Used a sports analogy just yesterday and a pick-up game of hoops broke . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 10, 2011
From the instant his fruitful eight-year reign ended, Republicans have pined for the next Ronald Reagan. To date, no man has succeeded in filling the . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 21, 2010
Sometimes the most effective way to deal with a bully is to simply pop him in the chops. While it may not shut him up entirely, it usually gives him pause . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 29, 2010
Prior to November's secular-socialism rollback, America's ever-shrill "progressive" machine contorted in a desperate effort to paint the Tea Party movement as a . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 4, 2010
Now that conservative candidates have mopped the floor with Democrats as expected, the Republican Party needs to have a serious "come to Jesus" meeting, and . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 30, 2010
John Adams, our second U.S. president, famously observed: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 29, 2010
One has to wonder if Reuters reporter Julie Steenhuysen will soon be joining the millions of other Americans relegated to Obama's swelling unemployment lines. . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 26, 2010
I'm a tremendous fan of author and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis. Rarely does one find a writer who can elucidate so profoundly, as could he, the stark . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 21, 2010
I don't see how liberal media-types can write, what with those uncalloused, milky-soft little digits all bundled in bulky kid gloves and all. Oh, when the . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 27, 2010
With a potential political bloodbath looming in November, liberals are understandably desperate. They see it all slipping away and it shows. The grassroots . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 16, 2010
[W]e will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.
— Ronald Wilson Reagan
Our nation is chosen by God and . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 6, 2010
"Progressives" are like pig farmers. In an effort to bury opposing viewpoints they sling pejorative slop, labeling as "bigot," "hater," "wingnut" or "racist" . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 25, 2010
Though always left of center, the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) once had a reputation as a fairly objective civil rights group. Founded by . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 5, 2010
The U.S. military has always discriminated. There are a host of malignant behaviors such as illicit drug use or habitual criminality that can render a person . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 11, 2010
Last weekend the San Francisco Chronicle "outed" Proposition 8 Judge Vaughn Walker as an active practitioner of the homosexual lifestyle: "The biggest open . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 31, 2010
"If you don't like it just turn off the TV!" goes the liberal mantra as all form of sexual perversion, obscenity and violence slinks unannounced into our living . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 28, 2010
The president recently told Diane Sawyer: "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." Excise the self-aggrandizing . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 21, 2010
So much for that whole "hopey-changey" thing; cute while it lasted, but the American people — like Bernie Madoff investors — now realize they've been duped. . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 18, 2010
Pop quiz:
Kyle and Christina — casual acquaintances fresh out of college — are interviewing for the same job. It's a position each desperately wants and . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 8, 2010
During the Roman Empire's secularist era those who acknowledged the deity of Christ were frequently fed to the lions to entertain — for lack of a better word . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 22, 2009
Are you as annoyed as I am by that nauseatingly amorphous phrase "Happy Holidays?" You may be interested to know that the mindset behind the term precedes . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 3, 2009
Today's Democratic leadership is a predictable lot. They've cornered the market on mass manipulation through semantic tinkering. It's a relatively easy code to . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 13, 2009
It never ceases to amaze me the degree to which liberals — the self-styled proponents of "tolerance" and "diversity"... the mind-numbingly sanctimonious . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 14, 2009
OK, this is just too easy. You have to ask: Did the Norwegian Nobel Committee devise a secret plot to completely marginalize President Obama in the . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 6, 2009
Obama's inner-circle is shaping-up like the bar scene from Star Wars. It's a swollen throng of unaccountable czars and policy advisors comprised of some of the . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 10, 2009
On Wednesday night President Obama threw a universal healthcare Hail Mary. The call? Incomplete pass.
His much anticipated address to a joint session of . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 2, 2009
Politicos, pundits and armchair campaign managers around the country are keeping a close eye on this year's gubernatorial contest in the Commonwealth of . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 20, 2009
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address comes to mind. In the art of persuasion, it's often most effective to paint in brief, colorful strokes.
A savvy reader with the . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 12, 2009
It's socialized medicine vs. the private sector. How does the former match-up to the latter? Well, by way of an ill-advised postal services analogy, our . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 5, 2009
I got a call a couple days ago from a producer with MSNBC. He wanted a hard copy of a press release I sent out entitled: "ObamaCare Likely to Mandate Free 'Sex . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 26, 2009
The president has more "czars" running around than Mother Russia. It's mondo bizarro. Kind of fitting, though; must be a communist thing.
Still, as the . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 15, 2009
The highly contentious "nature vs. nurture" debate over whether gay penguins choose the homosexual lifestyle or are hatched that way has reached a hard boil.
. . .
J. Matt Barber
July 7, 2009
Relativism is as relativism does, and Barack Obama does it well. His less than tepid response to evidence of a rigged election in Iran a few weeks ago and the . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 29, 2009
Most are unaware that during the Revolutionary War George Washington was a staunch advocate for allowing "gays" in the military. In fact, he boldly commissioned . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 27, 2009
Author and educator Peter S. Drucker wrote, "When a subject becomes totally obsolete, we make it a required course." Congress takes the inanity a step further. . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 7, 2009
Senate sponsors and liberal activist proponents of the federal "hate crimes" bill, S. 909, have been caught in a series of bald-faced lies. So confident am I of . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 24, 2009
Warning: This article contains graphic but accurate material that may be offensive to some readers.
You may have heard. During Sunday's Miss USA pageant . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 22, 2009
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) have quietly re-introduced the federal thought crimes bill, H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes . . .
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